United StatesI think that you have a good point. Have a "co-op", "solo", and "extreme solo" for those who want it. That way, we don't disqualify people who have already gotten solo times. For "extreme solo" I think your best bet would just be to hop into a Welcome Valley and be forced to do all your tasks there. Very little interference! What do you think?
People seem so upset that I'm beginning to wonder if runs where people are obviously relying on other people's help for a "solo" run, they should be moved to "co-op" at the moderator's discretion. And if that turned out to be the case, then maybe the moderator could contact the person submitting it and tell them, "Hey this is really more of a co-op run, so we will be moving this to co-op unless you want to submit an actual solo run with as little help as possible".
I see your point about the maxed toons following people around, I watched Megasnoop's Ddock run and those people were kind of just in the way and he couldn't really do anything about it. So that shouldn't be considered a co-op because he really was trying to do it solo, and he talks about "I didn't ask for this, but you guys just gave it to me". (And hey, maybe that could be considered as helping since he didn't refuse to use what they gave him.)
My point is that yeah, the only thing differentiating a solo run vs a co-op run shouldn't be the adding and keeping of a friend. I think it would be great to discuss how the rules can be changed.
